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Surgeons Sound Alarm Over BBQ Wire Cleaning Brushes

Plenty of barbecue tools look like they can hurt you pretty badly, but your wire cleaning brush? According to Geek.com, those wire bristles can do some seriously bad stuff to your body. They can become lodged in your tongue or throat, for example, and surgeons say that they have yet to figure out a reliable method of finding and removing them. Dr. Ian Dempsey of Halifax, Canada, explained that it’s like the old saying “trying to find a needle in a haystack,” adding ” but the haystack is your tongue.” Bristles that work their way down farther can be downright deadly. One patient wound up with a minute bristle lodged in his small intestine. Doctors finally managed to find it as it started working its way through the intestinal wall — if they hadn’t, it could have eventually worked its way into another organ and killed him.

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Plenty of barbecue tools look like they can hurt you pretty badly, but your wire cleaning brush? According to Geek.com, those wire bristles can do some seriously bad stuff to your body. They can become lodged in your tongue or throat, for example, and surgeons say that they have yet to figure out a reliable method of finding and removing them. Dr. Ian Dempsey of Halifax, Canada, explained that it’s like the old saying “trying to find a needle in a haystack,” adding ” but the haystack is your tongue.” Bristles that work their way down farther can be downright deadly. One patient wound up with a minute bristle lodged in his small intestine. Doctors finally managed to find it as it started working its way through the intestinal wall — if they hadn’t, it could have eventually worked its way into another organ and killed him.
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